“Routine is the housekeeper of inspiration”
“Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.”
“Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.”
“Housekeeping ain't no joke.”
“Being Dead means very light housekeeping”
“The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.”